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Role Reversal in Kennedy v. Louisiana: Or What's Sauce for the Goose . . . .

Posted on March 18, 2008
Last night, the death penalty seminar I teach did a moot court of Kennedy v. Louisiana, presenting the question whether capital punishment is unconstitutionally disproportionate to the crime of the rape of a child. I do at least one of...

CEO's Conviction Overturned

Posted on March 18, 2008
From NPR.com: Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications, had his conviction on insider trading overturned Monday. A federal appeals court ordered a new trial, saying the judge in the original trial improperly excluded a witness who would have...

Report Calls for LAPD SWAT Team Overhaul

Posted on March 18, 2008
From latimes.com: A panel of law enforcement experts convened by Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton to examine the department's elite SWAT unit concluded in an undisclosed report that the rigorous testing to get into the unit should be...

Va Backs Off on Bad Driver Fines

Posted on March 17, 2008
NPR.com: A recent effort by several states to slap stiff fines on reckless drivers has run into a rebellion in Virginia. State lawmakers have voted to throw the law out and give some of the money back after complaints about...

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Arzona Justice Project Moves to Sandra Day O'Connor Law School

Posted on March 17, 2008
The Arizona Justice Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to exonerating those wrongfully convicted and correcting other manifest injustices, is moving to the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. For 10 years, the Project has been housed...

Spring Issue of Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law is Now Available

Posted on March 17, 2008
Spring 2008 issue of Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law is now available. The main symposium says it all: "Toward a Just and Rational Body of Substantive Criminal Law: A Symposium in Honor of Sanford H. Kadish." Sandy Kadish is...

Court Grants Cert. in Massachusetts v. Melendez-Diaz

Posted on March 17, 2008
From nytimes.com: "The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether prosecutors can use crime lab reports as evidence without having the forensic analyst who prepared them testify at trial. "The reliability of crime labs has been questioned in several states...

CrimProf Carol Henderson is Now the President of the American Academy for Forensic Science

Posted on March 14, 2008
Stetson University College of Law CrimProf Carol Henderson officially took the gavel as president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences on Feb. 21 at the Academy?s 60th annual scientific meeting in Washington, D.C. Henderson directs the National Clearinghouse for...

Interesting Eighth Circuit Decision Applying Georgia v. Randolph

Posted on March 13, 2008
On Tuesday, the en banc Eighth Circuit released this interesting decision applying the recent Supreme Court case Georgia v. Randolph on third-party consent. In Randolph, the Supreme Court held that when one co-tenant is present and refuses to consent to...

CrimProf Charles Patrick Ewing Releases "Insanity: Murder, Madness and the Law"

Posted on March 12, 2008
The University at Buffalo Law School CrimProf Charles Patrick Ewing, considered one of the country's leading experts on the insanity defense, takes readers into the minds of David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy and other notorious murderers in his new book...

States Reconsider Life Sentences for Juveniles

Posted on March 12, 2008
From csmonitor.com: How should a society treat its youngest criminal offenders? And the families of victims of those offenders? Half a dozen states are now weighing these questions anew, as they consider whether to ban life sentences for juveniles that...

Spitzer Might Face the Mann Act

Posted on March 11, 2008
From NPR.com: Federal prosecutors might charge New York's Democratic governor, Eliot Spitzer, under a relatively obscure ? and controversial ? 1910 law that was originally intended to combat forced prostitution and "debauchery." Its official name is the White Slave Traffic...

Exnerated Florida Man Might Finally Be Compensated

Posted on March 11, 2008
From palmbeachpost.com: This time around, Alan Crotzer might get his money. "From Al's perspective, finally having a glimmer of hope - to me, that's a hallelujah," said Michael Olenick, Crotzer's attorney. Crotzer spent 24 years, six months, 13 days and...

House Democrats Balk at Giving Legal Protection to Phone Companies in Wiretapping Cases

Posted on March 11, 2008
From NYTimes.com: In continued defiance of the White House, House Democratic leaders are readying a proposal that would reject giving legal protection to the phone companies that helped in the National Security Agency?s program of wiretapping without warrants after the...

New York Governor Linked to Prostitution Ring

Posted on March 10, 2008
From NPR.com: Gov. Eliot Spitzer, accused in news reports of being involved in a prostitution ring, apologized to his family and the public on Monday at a hastily called news conference. He did not elaborate on the story. With his...

S.J. Quinney College of Law Hosts "Drugs: Addiction, Therapy, and Crime"

Posted on March 10, 2008
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law hosts ?Drugs: Addiction, Therapy, and Crime,? a conference to explore drugs, drug use, and related public policy, on March 13-14, 2008. Admission is free and open to the public. ?Despite the...

CrimProf Sheri Lynn Johnson Speaks during Death Penalty Awareness Week

Posted on March 09, 2008
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Baze v. Rees, a landmark case considering whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment. While activist student lawyers across the country wait for this...

US Customs and Border Protection Agents Charged With Numerous Crimes

Posted on March 09, 2008
From miamiherald.com: Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently...

CrimProf Laurie Levenson Discusses the Hate Crime Charging Dispute

Posted on March 09, 2008
From dailybreeze.com: Loyola Law School CrimProf Laurie Levenson recently discussed attempted murder and other charges that were filed Friday against two reputed Latino gang members accused of shooting a black 6-year-old boy in Harbor Gateway. Despite demands from community activists,...

Police Investigate Bomb in Times Square

Posted on March 07, 2008
NYTimes.com: A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early today, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above "the crossroads of the world." The blast, which happened around 3:45 a.m., left a gaping...

Bigger Ballistics Database Shot Down

Posted on March 07, 2008
From NPR.com: In recent years, some lawmakers and gun control groups have pushed for a national database that would record the ballistics signature of every gun sold in the United States. But a new report from a prestigious scientific panel...

Teachers Aide Sentenced to 6 Months For Stealing An Autistic Girl's Lunch Money

Posted on March 06, 2008
From latimes.com: A teacher's assistant was sentenced to six months in jail this week for stealing lunch money from a disabled student at Camarillo High School. Kristen Rene Santoyo, 37, was also given four years probation during a hearing Tuesday...

Arizona Considers Allowing Guns On Campus

Posted on March 06, 2008
From nytimes.com: Horrified by recent campus shootings, a state lawmaker here has come up with a proposal in keeping with the Taurus .22-caliber pistol tucked in her purse: Get more guns on campus. The lawmaker, State Senator Karen S. Johnson,...

More on Arizona v. Gant and the Other Footnote Four

Posted on March 06, 2008
Last week, the Supreme Court granted cert. in Arizona v. Gant. The case will require the Court to consider whether the police need any level of suspicion to think the passenger compartment of a car contains a dangerous weapon or...

Crack Convicts Could Be Released

Posted on March 04, 2008
From cnn.com: New sentencing guidelines were expected to lead Monday to the early release of more than a dozen federal inmates convicted on crack-cocaine charges. Approximately 1,600 federal inmates are currently eligible to ask a court to reduce their sentences...

CrimProf Daniel Medwed Inspired Former Student Who Drafted Exoneration Bill

Posted on March 04, 2008
A recently-passed Utah statute that provides compensation for prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated had its origin in an academic paper by a former S.J. Quinney College of Law student. Heather Harris, a 2006 College of Law graduate,...

Widener Law School Hosts the First CrimTorts Conference

Posted on March 04, 2008
About 75 people gathered on Widener?s Harrisburg campus Monday, Feb. 25 for the first national conference on ?Crimtorts,? the expanding middle ground between criminal and tort law. A host of distinguished academics and legal experts explored the novel concept, including...

The Key Prosecution Witness is Dead. Can The Prosecutor Negotiate A Plea?

Posted on March 04, 2008
I got into a very interesting discussion last night at the Morris K. Udall American Inn of Court meeting, taking the position, as a legal and disciplinary matter, that the death of an indispensable prosecution witness did not preclude a...

New Criminal Law Blog: The Faculty Lounge

Posted on March 03, 2008
We?re excited to welcome a new blog into this world. The Faculty Lounge is a group effort led by two crim profs: Dan Filler (Drexel) and Laura Appleman (Willamette). They?re joined by Al Brophy (Alabama), Calvin Massey (Hastings), Kathy Bergin...

New Jersey Police Can Now Trace the Source of Guns

Posted on March 03, 2008
From NPR.com: Unable to stop the tide of violence from illegal guns, New Jersey's cities are getting new-found help from the state police to track where the weapons are coming from. It's the first state in the nation to devise...

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